National Historic Landmark-USS Yorktown (CV-10)

National Historic Landmark- USS Yorktown

This aircraft carrier was the second ESSEX class carrier built by the U.S.

They formed the core of the fast carrier task forces in the Pacific. YORKTOWN supported American ground troops in the Phillipines, at Iwo Jima, ...

National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

From 1836 until his death, this was the home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), an important literary figure in the ante-bellum period. The brick house which he built here in 1867 was originally a one-story structure, to which ...

National Historic Landmark-Unitarian Church

National Historic Landmark-Unitarian Church, Charleston

Begun in 1772, and Gothicized by Francis D. Lee between 1852 and 1854, this is a good example of the dominance of the romantic and picturesque in the arts of the mid-19th century.

Lee's interior imitates ...

National Historic Landmark-Colonel John Stuart House

National Historic Landmark-Colonel John Stuart House

Built in 1772 by Colonel John Stuart (c. 1700-1779), the Royal Commissioner for Indian Affairs in the South, this is one of the finest examples of a three story Georgian frame townhouse in the Southern ...

National Historic Landmark-St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Erected 1767-1769, this Georgian-style brick church is distinguished by a high gambrel roof with Jacobean gables. Both the exterior and interior appear to be original.

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National Historic Landmark-St. Philip's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark- St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Charleston)

Built in 1836 (spire completed in 1850), this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition.

Three Tuscan pedimented porticoes contribute to this design to make a building ...

National Historic Landmark-St. James Church

National Historic Landmark- St. James Church, Santee

Constructed in 1768, this structure is a little-altered example of late 18th century efforts to give South Carolina's country Georgian churches a more sophisticated exterior design. St. James is 5 bays long and ...

National Historic Landmark-St James Church

National Historic Landmark- St. James Church, Goose Creek

Built 1713-1719, this is one of the first true Georgian churches in the English colonies. A rectangular single-story, stucco-on-brick structure, its elaborate interior is one of the finest of all small 18th-century country ...

National Historic Landmark-South Carolina State House

National Historic Landmark- South Carolina State House

Begun in 1851 and completed in 1907, this fine example of Neoclassical architecture demonstrates the disruptive effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras on Southern development.

Here, between 1869 and 1874, the ...

National Historic Landmark-Snee Farm

National Historic Landmark- Snee Farm

Snee Farm was owned by Charles Pinckney (1757-1824), one of the youngest members of the Continental Congress (1784-87) and member of the Constitutional Convention, where he presented the Pinckney Plan.

He later served as Governor of ...